So yeah, I’m running an OpenSUSE 13.1 v 3.11.10 on an HP EliteBook 8570w(intel core i7, nvidia quadro graphics with proprietary driver). I’ve installed it recently and it still has some unresolved issues. One of the things I’ve noticed from the start was that the Gnome would freeze once in a while, for 10-20 seconds or so, which wasn’t that dramatic and probably has a fix somewhere. What is dramatic, however, is that today I’ve decided to run gparted to create a new partition to share with my windows boot(resizing win, making a new ntfs) and after 5 min or so the gnome suddenly just died. It still shows update notifications and gparted slider is moving, i can wiggle my mouse pointer, etc., but other than that it’s completely unresponsive and it’s been stuck like this for an hour by now. And I can’t just restart because I’m afraid I’d screw up my win partition. Is there a way out of this predicament?
Ok, nevermind:
Switched to terminal using ctrl+alt+f1, listed all processes using top command and killed the gnome-desktop process by pid. By the way is there a more graceful way to do this? And is there a way to fix this issue for good?
On Wed, 14 May 2014 15:26:01 GMT, ptitz <ptitz@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
>
>Ok, nevermind:
>
>Switched to terminal using ctrl+alt+f1, listed all processes using top
>command and killed the gnome-desktop process by pid. By the way is there
>a more graceful way to do this? And is there a way to fix this issue for
>good?
Well yes there is. First be very thoughtful about what partitioning you
are doing. Second use PartedMagic bootable CD whenever you contemplate
portioning a disk. Triply so if you are considering resizing any
partition for any reason.
?-)
On 2014-05-20 05:54, josephkk wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2014 15:26:01 GMT, ptitz <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, nevermind:
>>
>> Switched to terminal using ctrl+alt+f1, listed all processes using top
>> command and killed the gnome-desktop process by pid. By the way is there
>> a more graceful way to do this? And is there a way to fix this issue for
>> good?
>
> Well yes there is. First be very thoughtful about what partitioning you
> are doing. Second use PartedMagic bootable CD whenever you contemplate
> portioning a disk. Triply so if you are considering resizing any
> partition for any reason.
Just don’t run a desktop that tries to do clever things with partitions
like mounting them before they are fully created.
I have noticed this being worse recently. I use XFCE, and while I have
not seen crashes or anything close to what the OP reports, I do see the
system trying to mount those partitions and making a fool of himself.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Agreed. Or use GParted from a boot disk or from a liveCD/DVD.
DO NOT use the partitioner from within a running system for dealing with the disk the running system is on, unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing.
On 2014-05-21 03:46, Fraser Bell wrote:
> -DO NOT- use the partitioner from within a running system for dealing
> with the disk the running system is on, unless you know -EXACTLY- what
> you are doing.
It should be safe, as long as you do not touch any of the mounted
partitions. I have done that hundreds of times…
…except when the kernel fails to sync the partition table with the
memory image it has of the same. That means rebooting to avoid damage.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))